Monday, November 6, 2017

PUZZLE #151: Crypticrostic 2

PUZZLE #151
CRYPTICROSTIC 2

Below is an Anacrostic with no spaces. Using normal Anacrostic rules, work back and forth between it and the clues to completely fill it out. However, all the clues are in cryptic crossword style, meaning that each clue has two halves: a definition of the answer and an indication of the answer's literal makeup via wordplay. Either half may come first, and finding the dividing point between them is the key to solving the clues. For a list of cryptic clue types, you can get one through this link.

Once you're done, the Anacrostic will reveal a cryptic clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: An 11-letter title.

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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
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33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

German one has partially gone insane [4]
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   44 35 08 27

Winter hazard is first to be melted [9]
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   01 31 18 39 34 14 25 43 07

Khan initially gets English greetings [7]
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   28 20 10 04 16 46 38

Going to allow odd womanizer [6]
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   48 41 11 23 36 13

Former British record label goes belly-up, following public sudden death [8]
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   17 24 32 45 12 03 22 37

Seer's income announced [7]
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   33 02 29 19 05 15 42

For starters, this really is no kitschy evergreen tree ornament [7]
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   30 21 09 47 40 26 06

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!

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